I’m building a chat app using ipfs and orbitdb. I currently have a desktop app which works perfectly on local networks but as soon as the greater internet is involve, databases do not sync anymore. I think this can be resolved using circuit-relays and in the future the autoRelay feature, but I can’t find how to deploy my own circuit relay.
±----------------------------+ ±-----------------------------------+ ±---------------------------+
| Desktop app | | Public circuit relay | | Desktop app |
| behind NAT | <==> | on heroku or aws | <==> | behind NAT |
±----------------------------+ ±-----------------------------------+ ±----------------------------+
I followed the circuit-relaying tutorial, which works very well but is all run locally. But when deploying on an AWS instance for example I get a bunch of errors as the node being unreachable.
My ipfs config
const ipfsOptions = {
//preload: { enabled: false },
repo: "./ipfs",
relay:{ enabled:true, hop: { enabled:true, active: true}},
EXPERIMENTAL: { pubsub: true },
config: {
Bootstrap: [],
Addresses: { Swarm: [
"/dns4/secure-beyond-12878.herokuapp.com/tcp/80/ws/p2p-webrtc-star",
"/dns4/wrtc-star1.par.dwebops.pub/tcp/443/wss/p2p-webrtc-star",
"/dns4/blooming-springs-75345.herokuapp.com/tcp/443/wss/p2p-webrtc-star/"
],
"API":"/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/5001",
"Gateway": "/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/8080"
},
}
};
Once the ipfs node is running inside the app, I’m trying to connect to the circuit relay as such
await ipfsNode.swarm.connect("/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4004/p2p/12D3KooWNMx9mV7hxqgVns5B2FSJBfv1UyqJFRHMyupC9Z9PDZ1h");
Anyone know what I’m doing wrong or if what I want to do can work?